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May 18, 2021
This profile appears as part of “16 Over 61,” a collaboration between the Forward and the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan’s Wechsler Center for Modern Aging.
Barbara Finch, 83, found a passion for social justice in 2005, and decided to spread it to others within her St. Louis, Mo., community, and beyond.
Image by Barbara Finch
So she founded Women’s Voices Raised for Social Justice, an organization that now includes more than 500 members, and works toward meaningful change on a slew of the issues that dominate the headlines. Their approach emphasizes envisioning a better world while instigating the pragmatic changes needed to build it.